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The iPod has landed
As iPods arrive on York's high street for the first time, STEVE CARROLL profiles Apple's magic MP3 player. JUST a small advertising board heralds its arrival, but eagle-eyed consumers who spied the sign outside Dixons in Coney Street have already got
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Your rights on doorstep sellers
A wide range of goods and services are sold in the home. This facility is useful for many consumers and for some it is essential. Many of these sales are trouble-free, but there is growing evidence of high-pressure selling practices, together with shoddy
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Slick start to a year of blatant electioneering
Parliamentary reporter James Slack sees Gordon Brown kick off a 12-month long General Election campaign. GORDON Brown gave pensioners a long overdue break, as he fired the starting gun for a year-long General Election campaign. By promising an extra £100
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Peace group plans protest at spy base
PEACE protesters are set to swamp a North Yorkshire spy base tomorrow in a direct-action protest to mark the first anniversary of the war on Iraq. Hundreds of demonstrators are expected to block the four main entrances to the Menwith Hill US military
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I remember all those hairs ago
A PASSING cynic might suppose that columns such as these are written off the top of my head. This week they would be dead right. Look at the top of many male heads, mine included, and you will not discover much in the way of hair. What used to be there
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A Taste Of Honey, York Theatre Royal, until April 3
ON encountering A Taste Of Honey for the first time, Graham Greene observed that Shelagh Delaney's debut play had "all the freshness of Mr Osborne's Look Back In Anger and a greater maturity". Written in 1958, this kitchen-sink drama was the work of a
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Youngsters un-Lock Castleford
YORK Acorn under-14s beat rivals Castleford Lock Lane for the first time in six years, 23-18 away, to reach the semi-finals of the Yorkshire Cup. Oliver Harrison and strong-running Danny Birkitt crossed early on, Ross Varley adding a goal, before Lock
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Double decker trek
York City Knights Supporters' Club are expecting to take two bus-loads to Sunday's Arriva Trains Cup game at Batley as the interest in the Knights continues to grow following the stunning Challenge Cup win at Featherstone. The first will pick up at Haxby
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All Blacks on Wright lines
BRIAN Wright scored four tries as New Earswick All Blacks U14s reached the semi-finals of the Yorkshire Continuation Cup by defeating a fired-up Scarborough Pirates side 20-10. Boro raced into a deserved 10-0 lead before All Blacks hit back with Wright's
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Pathetic justice
WHAT is the problem with today's magistrates? Once again we see one of them dishing out a pathetic "penalty" - this time to Scott Anderson Wilson, above - and suggesting the police should not be "too harsh on him" (March 16). In my naivete I believed
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Mad parking rules
CONGRATULATIONS to the clever souls that invented the new car parking fees for York because they have single-handedly gifted every resident and visitor with a disbelieving expression. Charging between 6pm and 9pm is likely to deter those who can avoid
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Housing misery
BACK in 1980 I climbed upon the property ladder buying a terrace property in need of modernisation in York for £9,500. At the time my gross weekly earnings were £82 giving, on the basis of three times earnings, a mortgage offer of just under £13,000.
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Litter lessons
THE Evening Press carried two reports about litter in the centre of York (March 12). What about the roads leading into the city? Last week while walking into York from Fulford I was appalled by the rubbish lying on the grass and path; paper, plastic bottles
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MP asks Army for mast-share deal
AN MP is to ask Army bosses to consider allowing a "mast-share" at a York barracks as an alternative to siting a controversial mobile phone mast near homes. John Grogan is writing to the Ministry of Defence to ask if it would put an O2 mast on its communications
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Traders, churches win concessions
ANGRY traders and churchgoers in the area round an historic York street have won new concessions in their fight against city centre parking charges. People working and worshipping in Micklegate have been up in arms over plans to introduce on-street parking
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Lethal weapons
THE two Apache helicopters swoop low up the Vale of York in attack formation. Seen from our pursuing Gazelle helicopter, they look like gigantic black insects, their cockpits gleaming like compound eyes. Up close, they are angular, futuristic, and utterly
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Loco bid is flying high...
A YORK museum's appeal to bring the Flying Scotsman to the city has topped £220,000 today, bosses have revealed. With two weeks left until a bidding war for the historic locomotive ends, pledges are continuing to flood in to help the National Railway
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Philippa's formula
FORMER Tomorrow's World presenter Philippa Forrester gave a passionate speech to a York audience on the thrills of science. The popular personality, who also fronts Robot Wars with Craig Charles, spoke last night at the Caf Scientifique Event at the Merchant
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Cool Bracken guides York to to Trophy final
PAT Bracken inspired York and District Indoor Bowls Club to a dramatic sudden death shoot-out victory over Colchester to clinch a place in the final of the English women's national team bowls championship. After their sensational 77-76 victory at Northampton
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ASBO plea to magistrates
Magistrates must put the needs of communities above those of individual criminals, according to the top Government civil servant responsible for tackling antisocial behaviour. Louise Casey, director of the Home Office antisocial behaviour unit, told the
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Striker quest tests Brass
YORK City manager Chris Brass would still like to bring another striker to Bootham Crescent before next Thursday's transfer deadline. Brass has recently bolstered his attack with the non-contract signing of Andy Bell and the loan swoop for Newcastle youngster
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Race hate yobs target boy, 14
A HORRIFIED York mother told today how her teenage son had suffered a catalogue of racial abuse at the hands of violent teenage yobs. She claims the 14-year-old Millthorpe School pupil, from Holgate, who is of mixed race, had been assaulted with a snooker
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Lovers do it and so should the man organising defence
THE words of Sir Alex Ferguson after Manchester United's 4-1 defeat against Manchester City at the weekend held a certain resonance. In his post-match inquest, Sir Alex said the biggest thing that had come out of the match was his defence's lack of communication
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Striker quest tests Brass
YORK City manager Chris Brass would still like to bring another striker to Bootham Crescent before next Thursday's transfer deadline. Brass has recently bolstered his attack with the non-contract signing of Andy Bell and the loan swoop for Newcastle youngster
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BabyBird, Best Of BabyBird (Echo) ***; Peter Bruntnell, Played Out (Loose) ***
BABYBIRD'S Stephen Jones was last heard singing in a child-like falsetto on last year's Almost Cured Of Sadness, for which he had returned to recording in the messy, DIY manner of his formative series of Sheffield bedroom albums. What came in between
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The String Cheese Incident, Untying The Not (Sci-Fidelity Records) *
THE last time we were here, it took punk music to get us all out alive. For this is the risen vampire of prog rock, leaching your blood away with every leaden, lumpen note. Bizarrely, bluegrass is the tag the band would like to cling to. It may be grass
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Harry Connick, Jr, Only You (Columbia) ****
Cullum, Cincotti and Buble may challenge, but H C Jr goes the distance to ring-a-ding the Sinatra-ometer and the opening song More could be 'Ole Blue Eyes himself if you shut your eyes. He has a swaggering, languid confidence as vocalist and pianist and
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Space is so unpredictable when cycling
THE journey to the end of the solar system is a very long way, especially if you go by bicycle. No wonder cyclists view the discovery of the tenth "planet", Sedna, with mixed feelings. It was Chris Wood, who styles himself the logistics secretary of York's
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Boring budget a fuss over 'nothing'
BORING is good - and Chancellor Gordon Brown's budget was boring all right. That was the broad reaction today from regional businesses in York and North and East Yorkshire. Penny Hemming, director of the Yorkshire CBI, said: "I called for a boring budget
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York residents' view of Budget
GORDON Brown unveiled his eighth Budget - but what does it mean for York residents? Lucy Stephens and Dan Jones asked all sections of society what they thought of the Chancellor's cash plans. The student: Chris Jones, 21, is University of York Students
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Schools and OAPs prove among winners
CASH-strapped schools and pensioners in North Yorkshire have been handed a multi-million pound Budget boost - paid for by the axing of thousands of Government jobs. Chancellor Gordon Brown found an extra £100 for pensioners who have been hit in the pocket
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House-building boom
Shares at York-based national builder Persimmon rose to a record high on the back of budget plans for a huge house-building programme. Gordon Brown backed a report that said up to 140,000 new properties a year needed to be built to cool prices and meet
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Gift to pensioners hailed
THE budget "present" of £100 for pensioners was today welcomed by police chiefs, who say it will help the elderly pay rising council tax bills. In a move seen by many as an attempt to head off a "grey revolt" over spiralling council tax demands, Chancellor
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Well packaged before election
DUNCAN MEREDITH, of Garbutt & Elliott of York, looks beyond Gordon Brown's Budget speech to the small print, and asks: What does this mean for us? THIS was a borrower's budget, well-packaged in the year before an election, but how did we in York and
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The right direction for region
Yorkshire Forward chairman Terry Hodgkinson described the Chancellor's budget plans to devolve more powers to the regions to help stimulate higher economic growth as a "very welcome step in the right direction". He said that Mr Brown had listened carefully
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New for Hew as Carlyle takes exit
Heworth Amateur Rugby League Club player-coach Brendan Carlyle is standing down at the end of the season. Heworth man Alfie Hills will take over the reins as head coach and the gap will be filled by current Selby Warriors coach Kevin Fellows, with colleague
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It's win or bust for Villagers
INJURY-HIT Heworth limp into Saturday's Arriva Trains Conference match at Eastmoor Dragons knowing only a win will keep their heads above the re-election parapet. Lee Clarke will again be missing for the away trip with his wife expecting a baby any minute
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Agar aces stand firm
COACH Richard Agar reckons he will have little difficulty keeping York City Knights' collective feet on the ground despite Sunday's magical win at Featherstone. The Knights follow up their historic Powergen Challenge Cup fifth round triumph by returning
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Graves streaks to silver again
PHILIP Graves headed up the North Yorkshire charge at the British Schools Biathlon Championships with his third silver medal in as many years. The 15-year-old Archbishop Holgate School student came second overall in the Year 10 age group after setting
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End of the line for Millthorpe
MILLTHORPE School's brave run in the National Schools Rugby League Cup came to an end at the hands of holders St Cuthberts (St Helens). The York lads made a great start when Brian Wright scored a well-worked try in the opening minutes. But the well-drilled
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The way we were
Thursday, March 18, 2004 100 years ago: At a meeting of York Penitentiary committee, members were lamenting that "regrettable feature" of the life of the city, namely the gathering of "youths and girls" in Coney Street on Sunday nights. It presented a
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'Junket' with us
DR Ward needs to explain what he means by "junkets and fact-finding missions" (Letters, March 15). There haven't been any. However, I invite him to the next "junket" - a celebration of a woman's 90th birthday party in April. The woman lives in one of
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Heworth hit form
DECLAN Malarkey, Tom Genever and an own goal saw Heworth triumph 3-1 against Fulford in a York Mitchell Sports League Cup third round tie. Fulford replied through Lee Potter. In the same competition, Haxby Town 'A' knocked neighbours Wiggington for six
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Amotherby on the spot for semi-final slot
AMOTHERBY and Swinton won a dramatic delayed Leeper Hare York and District Junior League Cup quarter-final tie at neighbours Norton United. They eventually went through 5-4 on a penalty shoot-out and will face Tockwith at York RI tonight with a place
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Ousted by bombers
SPAIN'S main opposition party was against the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Consequently, after Madrid's recent bomb explosions which killed more than 200 and injured more than 1,400, the Spanish people benefited during the weekend's elections and
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Tax credit cut hits York family of nine
A YORK mother-of-seven says she is struggling to survive after her child tax credit was cut without warning. Tracy Yates, 29, of Middleton Road, Acomb, went to the bank and discovered her weekly child tax credit was lower than usual. A week later she
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Trust in memory of road victim
A PUPIL at a York school who was killed in a road accident is to have a trust fund to reward academic excellence established in her memory. Lydia's Foundation Fund will offer an annual prize to remember 12-year-old Lydia Purcell, who was an outstanding
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Defeated Cadden remains confident
LEADING York Thai boxer Richard Cadden lost his latest fight - but still derived many positives ahead of his world title eliminator next month. Cadden, the UK number one at 62kg, gave away 6kg and three weight divisions to take on Newcastle fighter Craig
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Closure delay hope for Barbican Centre
A LEISURE chief has revealed that York's Barbican Centre may not fully close down at the end of May after all. Charlie Croft, City of York Council's assistant director of leisure and lifelong learning, says the authority is currently looking at which
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New for Hew as Carlyle takes exit
Heworth Amateur Rugby League Club player-coach Brendan Carlyle is standing down at the end of the season. Heworth man Alfie Hills will take over the reins as head coach and the gap will be filled by current Selby Warriors coach Kevin Fellows, with colleague
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Angry driver cut off wheel clamp
A MOTORIST was so furious after his van was clamped that he sawed the clamp off and drove away, York magistrates heard. But the car park attendant who had put it on saw the "unclamped" van and asked driver Ainsley Foster where it was, said Nick Kirkland
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Union fears for 200 local civil service jobs
UNION leaders claimed today that nearly 200 civil service posts could be lost in York and North Yorkshire, following the shock Budget revelation of more than 40,000 job losses across the country. But local school heads were delighted by Gordon Brown's
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Agar aces stand firm
COACH Richard Agar reckons he will have little difficulty keeping York City Knights' collective feet on the ground despite Sunday's magical win at Featherstone. The Knights follow up their historic Powergen Challenge Cup fifth round triumph by returning
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Budget has its benefits
BUSINESS leaders paid Gordon Brown the ultimate compliment today. They said his budget was boring. Budgets only make high political theatre when the economy is in trouble. The Chancellor has overseen low interest rates, high employment and financial stability
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Bring it home
TOMORROW National Railway Museum bosses will set their eyes on the prize. They are off to see the Flying Scotsman. No doubt bosses will imagine how fine the world's most famous locomotive would look in the world's greatest railway museum. That outcome
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George Harrison, The Dark Horse Years 1976 - 1992 (Dark Horse) Thirty Three & 1/3 **; George Harriso
George and Ringo will forever be billed as "also starred with the Beatles". George was the "dark horse" of the band and, subsequently, the money behind the label of the same name; the youngest Beatle, brilliant... but eclipsed by Lennon and McCartney
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The Shins, Chutes Too Narrow (Sub Pop) ****
HYPED to the hills over the Pond, The Shins' stunning second album delivers a hefty boot just above the ankles to sceptics desperate to burst their pristine pop bubble. Already propelled by rave reviews for their debut, the quirky Albuquerque foursome
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Hundred Reasons, Shatterproof Is Not A Challenge (Columbia Records) ****
HUNDRED Reasons have perfected the great rock chorus. Coming on leaps and bounds from their exhilarating debut, Ideas Above Our Station, Shatterproof... gives the UK rock scene a much-needed kick up the backside. Its 12 songs - and you will struggle to
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Darley enjoys the Craic - 18/03/04
After the joys of the three-day Festival meeting at Cheltenham, it's back to bread-and-butter fare, and a taste of what is just around the corner, tomorrow. The Flat Turf season starts in a week's time and Lingfield's all-weather Flat meeting tomorrow
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Turn out in force for Knights
HAVING had the privilege to witness an outstanding performance of skill, desire and determination we would like to thank all concerned with the York City Knights RLFC for Sunday's spectacular result at Featherstone. When the going got tough every York
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Bring on Huddersfield
CONGRATULATIONS to everyone involved at York City Knights, especially the players, on reaching the quarter finals of the Powergen Challenge Cup. The game at Featherstone was fantastic. Before the game I had predicted a York win but when Aaron Wood got
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Anonymous text was out of order
I feel I must comment on the second "text verdict" in the Evening Press (Monday, March 15) regarding the York City v Torquay match. To use this medium to attack a player so personally is not, as I understood it, the intended use of this facility. By all
